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Tokenomics - the Boomi worldview as CEO Steve Lucas warns CIOs that training new AI models has gone from used car to aircraft carrier price tags

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Tokenomics is the talk of the technology industry. Whether it’s concerns about developers burning through tokens or fears over fast-changing pricing models, every tech founder has a take on the management of variable costs driven by AI consumption, and every CIO has to find an answer to this intractable challenge.

Into this heated debate comes Boomi CEO Steve Lucas, warns that CIOs who fail to heed the warnings of token maxing could see their organizations exposed to exponential cost increases and a failure to deliver the return on investment (ROI) that boards demand. Lucas suggests that new cost-focused concerns have arisen for CIOs due to the rapid rise of agents

AI and the cost to train a new model has gone from the price of a used car to the price of an aircraft carrier. Those economics are not sustainable.

While companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have shouldered the...

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